COLUMBIA, S.C. - Defence attorneys for a South Carolina father who killed his five children unsuccessfully argued earlier this week that he was insane when he killed them. The same jurors who convicted Jones on Tuesday return to the Lexington County Courthouse on Thursday to begin hearing evidence in a second trial. Prosecutors are expected to call witnesses including Jones’ ex-wife, the mother of the children, to testify how much pain their deaths have caused. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWJones’ lawyers will try to get jurors to sympathize with him as they ask for mercy. Jones put himself through college while married with children, landing an $80,000-a-year computer engineer job in Columbia, according to earlier testimony.

Source: thestar June 06, 2019 05:03 UTC